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Local government is stealing a march on central government in its use of virtualisation to harness cost savings and power efficiencies,

Local government is leading the way with its use of virtualisation, a UK virtualisation specialist claimed earlier this week.

The Green Government Computing event, hosted by specialist technology provider, Intercept gathered technology leaders from the public sector together to discuss the financial and environmental savings available from the latest virtualisation technologies.

Gary Collins, Intercept chief technology officer told eWEEK Europe that local government organisations were stealing a march over their central government counterparts.

“Local government is leading the way with virtualisation because they can adapt more quickly that central government,” Collins said. “Project lifecycles can be managed a lot quicker. And they do speak a lot to each other, share best practice and help to spur each other’s projects on.”

By contrast, he said government departments worked more with systems integrators, operating within long-term contracts on projects of much larger scale and scope.

It’s great to see local government adopting virtualization both in terms of efficiency and in proving the concepts and technology.

In terms of savings it’s not just the tangible ones, the energy savings from having one server not four for example, or the hardware support costs. It’s the abstraction of the application and the end user from one physical device, that if server7 goes on it’s holidays, life continues, oh we might argue there is an impact, but it’s marginal, it’s not the complete system down for possibly days. It’s the ability to dynamically re-allocate resources, bring online another server on demand, to have an IT that is more scalable, reliable and energy efficient.

That local government can run their platforms on a virtual solution, could that highlight the concepts to central government, to enterprise and small business customers? We’ll have to see, an interesting read, do check it out.

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